Artemis

Artemis is the Greek goddess of the hunt and the moon, twin to Apollo, patron of wild things and women in labor, a figure who kept her own company and her own bow. The name is probably pre-Greek in origin, its meaning lost behind her myth, and that obscurity only deepens the aura. It resurfaced recently thanks to the young-adult hero Artemis Fowl and NASA's return-to-the-moon program. At 1022 and fully unisex, the three syllables move like arrows released in sequence. Mythic without being costume, Artemis reads cool, self-possessed, and slightly silvered by moonlight.